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Smurfix

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    Comment #41982825

    They knew that the target had nearly half a million [child ab]users. That's sufficient motivation right there. The problem is that once you have the infrastructure you can go after…

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    Comment #34353003

    Well, Ok, so the main thing that's good about it is that it's dead easy to start a goroutine. But that's actually bad, just like randomly jumping to any piece of code whatsoever is…

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    Comment #34352814

    How the heck should a library author know whether an error is recoverable or not? In many situations that depends entirely on the caller. Not-so-contrived example: a config options…

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    Comment #16382494

    You mean, like systemd?

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    Comment #15440418

    Of course the tests are tested – by the code they're covering, which is also covered by other tests.

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    Comment #15225224

    People can get by with zero LIDARs. There's no reason why autonomous cars couldn't. The real problems are elsewhere (emergency vehicles, ambiguous situations, construction, …). We'…

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    Comment #11574411

    Dudette, actually. Pay attention. :-P

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    Comment #11574404

    People still don' (want to) understand software.